How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered all web site hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you getting bewildered? We certainly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Predicament Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weakness Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the billing system (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: 120+ web site hosting CP departments to learn... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting suppliers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...